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July 2014 Yellowbrick changed its brand to YB Tracking Ltd. This is not an EPIRB or a PLB; it does not just transmit your position in an emergency, it transmits your position on a regular basis, all the time. Yellowbrick is battery powered, and will run for up to 3 months, transmitting hourly.

A growing community of yachts in transit (predominantly NZ and associated South Pacific region) run by Gulf Harbour Radio. Free, easy Chrome App for position reporting, own page with map, blog and photos.

Free service to help keep family and friends up to date with where you are cruising. Send a daily email to their server with position information, and subscribe to the summary email which comes out daily to see where other boats are. This website also has a useful section called "Jetsam" with timeless articles for ocean navigators.

The main feature of use to blue water cruisers is the "follow list", which allows a user to post position updates to Facebook from a smart phone or satellite phone, and to follow his/her sailing friends or regatta competitors on a map.

Cruising Radio Nets - Caribbean

Bahamas Cruiser Net

VHF Channel 68

08:15 local time for Marsh Harbour Abaco, Bahamas.

Bahamas Weather (BASRA)

4003 kHz at 1100 UTC

C AM Breakfast Club

Operates at 0900 EDT on 7083.

Carib WX George

Operates at 0700 EDT on 7241.

Caribbean

6215 kHz at 1000 UTC (Uncontrolled 1000-1200).

Caribbean Maritime Mobile Net

Posted September 2013.

George Kline operates this daily weather net (except Sundays) at 1100 UTC on 7250 LSB. Whilst this is a "HAM" net, anyone can listen. During severe weather the net sometimes also operates in the afternoons, and this is announced on an ad hoc basis during the morning net.

Caribbean NW Net

Northwest Caribbean net, 1400 UTC 6209 USB, alternates 6212 and 6516, 7 days/wk. Generally covers Providencia north to Mexico on the Carib side, including Providencia, San Andreas, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica and the Caymans. They often follow boats all the way home to Key West through Galveston on the US coast, and sometimes boats heading south will continue to check in down to Panama, but not often.

The daily HF radio voice net was discontinued from 1st April 2014 due to lack of following. The CSSN now have a "report incident" icon on their hompage, with an associated reporting form, making it quick and easy to inform them. Security reports received are published on the website, so check the site regularly for the latest important NEWS and incident reports, or to read a history of incidents in the area you want to cruise. The site has many features under development, which will add new functions and further improve the user experience. The CSSN website also has information and links to a variety of other resources related to safety and security for cruisers. Their precautions checklist on how to prepare before you go is very useful.

Eastern U.S. and Canada, The Bahamas, and northern Caribbean. A key Net for cruisers on the east coast of the USA, Caribbean and for those crossing from Europe.
Meets each morning, seven days a week at 0830 Eastern Time on SSB 8152 kHz / 8.152 mHz -OR- 6.516 mHz or 6.227 mHz during the seasonal change (very loosely defined as Fall to Spring).
This group of volunteers relay boats and locations, keeping an eye out for boats on passage. On the same frequency, Dick Giddings, DOODAH Net, at 1700 (05:00 PM Eastern time) also does the same, on 8152 USB.
The Cruiseheimers Net website also has some excellent communications articles.

Cruising Radio Nets - Asia

HF/SSB voice and e-mail services from Brunei on the NW coast of Borneo. Service area covers the NW Pacific, SE Asia, and eastern Indian Oceans (plus N and W coasts of Australia). SailMail host for this region, and also BBRemail service for cruisers.

Indian Ocean Net

The morning net focuses on the Eastern part of the Indian Ocean from the west coast of Malaysia/Thailand to Cochin, and an evening net focuses on the Western part, from Cochin to Eritrea.
The morning IO net will be at 0230 GMT (which is 09:30am Thai and 08:00am Cochin).
The evening IO net at 1400 GMT (which is 07:30pm India time and 05:00pm in Eritrea).
On Frequency 8143.00, Reporting boat name, total number of crew, position and weather. And anything else.

Cruising Radio Nets - Atlantic

Eastern U.S. and Canada, The Bahamas, and northern Caribbean. A key Net for cruisers on the east coast of the USA, Caribbean and for those crossing from Europe.
Meets each morning, seven days a week at 0830 Eastern Time on SSB 8152 kHz / 8.152 mHz -OR- 6.516 mHz or 6.227 mHz during the seasonal change (very loosely defined as Fall to Spring).
This group of volunteers relay boats and locations, keeping an eye out for boats on passage. On the same frequency, Dick Giddings, DOODAH Net, at 1700 (05:00 PM Eastern time) also does the same, on 8152 USB.
The Cruiseheimers Net website also has some excellent communications articles.

Cruising Radio Nets - Pacific

The BCBN operates daily during the summer months from 1700 PDT using the Vancouver Island Trunk System. The starting date for 2014 was June 21. The purpose of this net is to provide information to mariners, and to facilitate communications between boaters and with friends and family back home. Methods of contacting the BDBN are shown on their website.

The ARC is a ‘must do’ for many sailors, and attracts over 200 boats and 1200 people every year to sail 2700 NM across the Atlantic from Gran Canaria to Saint Lucia.

The ARC is for everyone; families with children, tough racers, cruising couples, big boats and modest boats. Crossing the Atlantic together, but having their own adventures. More than just a boat race, the ARC is about friendships made ashore in the two weeks of pre-departure activities continued over the radio net at sea. It’s about arriving in Saint Lucia to be met on the dock with a rum punch and a chilled beer, knowing you have achieved something fantastic - crossing an ocean on a small sailboat.